World energy issues monitor 2024
In a world where the demands for secure, affordable and sustainable energy are ever-increasing, global and national energy systems are showing signs of deficiencies and strains everywhere. There is an
In a world where the demands for secure, affordable and sustainable energy are ever-increasing, global and national energy systems are showing signs of deficiencies and strains everywhere. There is an
Chinese power equipment major Shanghai Electric Corp (SEC) plans to set up a manufacturing plant in India, which has a huge demand for its products, but the company is concerned about clarity of policies
As per the Electricity Act, 2003, CEA is to prepare the National Electricity Plan (NEP) once in five years. The Act stipulates that CEA, while preparing the NEP, shall publish the draft of the same and
The Maharashtra government, caught between the rising mismatch between demand and supply of power and deteriorating finances of power utilities, has introduced an amnesty scheme for payment of dues by consumers. The scheme would be applicable for the recovery of pending electricity bills for various drinking water schemes.
New Delhi All public-private partnership (PPP) projects in the power transmission sector, including intra-state transmission networks, will now qualify for government grants under the viability-gap funding (VGF) scheme, making them attractive to private sector investors. The VGF scheme, finalised by the finance ministry few years back to promote investment in the infrastructure sector, involves central assistance in the form of grant for capital expenditure up to 20% of the project cost, while the state government — being one of the owners — could also provide a matching grant with a ceiling of another 20% of the project cost.
Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) to be provided free to 14.62 lakh huts A proposal aimed at strengthening the power transmission network at a cost of about Rs.3,573 crore has been sent by the State government to the Union Ministry of Economic Affairs for seeking financial assistance from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is UPA's man with the political Midas touch. He needs to lend some of that magic to lift the economy out of its morass. By the Government's own estimate, the economy is
It will benefit trade and industry that are reeling under power crisis Industries in Coimbatore region, which are hit by power shortage and had demanded commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project at the earliest, welcomed the announcement by the State Government on Monday that efforts will be taken for commissioning of the power project.
A power plant can be set up by developer(s)/co-developer(s) in a SEZ, as part of infrastructure facility in the processing area or non-processing area of SEZ. Such a power plant setup in the processing
Mumbai may be able to get seamless supply of power to tide over the crunch during the summers with Reliance Infrastructure Limited (RInfra) commissioning its loop-in-loop-out (LILO) link, which will enable
Across the power sector, alarm bells are ringing, threatening to short-circuit the already unravelling growth story. Manufacturing has pulled down to its lowest in three years, export growth is petering